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Tar. 6905. 
ACHILLEA noupzstris. 
Native of Southern Italy. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosirm.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER. 
Genus AcHiLLEa, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 419.) 
AcuititEd (Montane) rupestris ; humile, laxe cespitosum, stoloniferum, rhizo- 
mate lignoso, caulibus erectis v. ascendentibus glanduloso-puberulis, foliis 
radicalibus rosulatis lineari-spathulatis obtusis subacutisve integerrimis griseo- 
viridibus, caulinis sparsis consimilibus interdum basin versus uno latere 
dentatis capitulis corymbosis 3-3-poll. latis, involucro late ovoideo, bracteis 
aucis dorso glandulosis marginibus scariosis fimbriatis, paleis lanceolatis, 
Raribas radii paucis, tubo brevi glanduloso, ligulis rotundatis imbricatis albis 
3-crenatis, disci paucis, acheniis rufo-brunneis. 2 
A. rupestris, Huter in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 1879, p. 281; Heimerl Monog. 
Ptarmic. (1884), p. 38. 
The Southern Apennines of Calabria have only recently 
been examined closely by botanists, and have yielded a 
considerable number of new or very interesting plants, 
including some that had previously been supposed to be 
confined to the mountains of Greece. Achillea rupestris is 
one of these novelties, and a very scarce one, having been 
collected in one spot only, namely, at Polinello, on the 
precipitous calcareous rocks of the Pollino Mountains, at 
an elevation of between 5000 and 6000 feet, where it was 
discovered by Signors Huter, Porta, and Rigo, in 1877. It 
is quite hardy in England, and is a very attractive plant 
for the rock-garden, where it flowered for the first time 
at Kew in May of the present year. 
The Achilleas of the Ptarmica section have been made 
the subject of an elaborate monograph by Anton Heimerl, 
published by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Vienna, in 
which twenty-one species are described, together with 
eighteen hybrids. It is a remarkable fact that though the 
section Ptarmica extends all round the globe in north 
temperate latitudes, no species is found in the Himalaya 
-- or in Tibet. 
Nov. Ist, 1886. 
